Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way. — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book. — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“But, Erin. If you are trying to make a writing career for yourself, you will get rejected again and again and again.… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it whether you think you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very… — Jody Lynn Nye Copy Share Image
“How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevitable, necessary… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“I could write from anywhere, including the moon, provided I had a pencil and not a pen.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write” — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
